Budget

The Superintendent of Education shall prepare the DOE fiscal year budget, giving the highest priority to budgetary items that directly affect teaching and learning. The Board shall approve the proposed budget and its funding priorities by resolution. The budget request for the non-personnel categories of each and every decentralized school shall be submitted as a separate line-item. After Board approval, the Superintendent shall submit the proposed DOE fiscal year budget to I Liheslaturan Guåhan, and a courtesy copy to I Maga’hågan/Maga’låhen Guåhan, no later than the thirtieth

(30th)day of January. The budget shall be in the format of the Budget Call issued by the Bureau of Budget and Management Research and shall describe DOE’s budget requests to federal agencies for federal grant awards by object classification and by grant, including each grant’s staffing pattern, both current and proposed, and such information as may be requested by I Liheslaturan Guåhan.